The integration of natural science and spirituality is accomplished by putting consciousness into the equations of the quantized relativistic model of reality. This approach, with a quantum calculus based on the precise empirical data provided by the Large Hadron Collider, leads to the discovery of gimmel, the non-physical third form that must exist in addition to mass and energy, in order for there to be a stable universe.

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

THE DANGER OF ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE

THE
DANGER OF ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE

IS
SCIENCE BRINGING ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD?

Warning:
That which follows may be hazardous to your mental health!

Consider the following well-known
philosophical statements:

1.) Knowledge
is Power

2.) Power
Corrupts; and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

If these two statements are true, and
there is abundant evidence in human history to support them, then we must
conclude that:

3.) Absolute Knowledge is Absolute Power,
which Corrupts Absolutely.

And therein lies the danger.

Beyond simple physical survival, the goal
of seeking knowledge is to know the truth. Defining reality as truth and truth
as reality, i.e., truth and reality are identically the same, we seek to know
as much as we possibly can about the nature of reality. It would seem that the more
we know, the more control we have, to avoid the disasters of pain, sadness and
death, and prolong our enjoyment of freedom, happiness and life; …that is, up
to a point. As to the possibility of having absolute knowledge, Science and
mathematics tell us that we can never know everything because the universe
expands away and shrinks away from us at the same time, faster than we can
learn to see it, ever revealing new mysteries of the very large and the very
small, while we remain stuck in the middle, and Gӧdel’s incompleteness theorems
tell us that we can ask questions that have no answers in the logical system within
we ask them.

But this state of affairs exists only if we
confine our search for reality to domains within a closed, finite universe. The
instant infinity is accepted as real, everything changes. If intelligence is
more than the mechanism of the brain, if it is infinite, then that intelligence
can, effectively, know everything. In fact, the way the universe works, the
intelligence need not be infinite, only effectively infinite in the same manner
as the expanding universe. Let me explain:

Science cannot prove, and therefore cannot
say, that reality is finite. Mathematics cannot prove, and therefore cannot
say, that the logical system describing reality is finite. Our knowledge of reality
is finite as long as our observation and measurement of it is limited by the finite
three-dimensional domain of our physical senses and extensions of them. In
fact, the nature of scientific observation, and the proof of Gӧdel’s incompleteness
theorems prove that the physical universe, and the reality it is part of, are
effectively infinite. Here’s why:

If the physical universe is expanding away
from us at speeds that approach the speed of light at the farthest distance, as
indicated by the red-shift data, it is only finite if we freeze it in time,
like a snapshot, and this is what we do with any observation or measurement. If
we expand our observation and measurement to the farthest reaches of today’s
snapshot, we find that, because we cannot exceed the speed of light within the
finite portion of reality we occupy, reality has expanded beyond our reach. The
logical system of mathematics that describes our current knowledge of reality
is based upon axiomatic principles that are correct within the logical system
describing finite reality as we know it.

But, what if we discover new aspects of
reality? To obtain a logical mathematical system that encompasses the new
expanded reality, we need to find the additional axiomatic principle or
principles appropriate to the expanded observable reality. So the expanding
universe, and our expanding knowledge of it, make reality and the mathematical
system that describes it effectively infinite.

Importantly, it appears that we now stand
at a point in the expansion of our knowledge of reality where we are ready to
take the third step into a complete understanding of the nature of physical reality,
i.e., Absolute Knowledge. The first step was the paradigm shift to Einstein’s four-dimensional
space-time, mass-energy reality. The second step was the shift of Bohr,
Heisenberg and Schrӧdinger’s quantum physics with quantized reality. The third
step is the Close-Neppe nine-dimensional space-time-consciousness reality, a
true theory of everything.

A DISAPPEARING GENIUS

Most readers of the posts on this website know
that I joined MENSA more than 30 years ago based on my Graduate Record Exam
scores that indicated an IQ much higher than the 132 required for membership in
MENSA. I enjoyed the MENSAN magazine and attended several MENSA gatherings and
spoke at some of them including the Colloquium on Consciousness in suburban Detroit
in 2002. Impressed by articles written by members of the International Society
for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE), an organization that required, among other
things an IQ of 150 or above, I took their test in 2006 and became a member. I
rose rapidly through the ranks of the ISPE to Senior Research Fellow, and based
on my score there, I was recruited into two additional high IQ societies with even
more restrictive requirements including even higher IQ scores, a high level of
creativity, with documented accomplishments, and a high level of professional
integrity.

In 2011 my wife Jacqui and I were invited
to speak at a conference in Brisbane Australia. I knew that the founder of one
of the high IQ societies I belonged to, was living in a remote part of Queensland
south of the Cairns Rainforest. His documented IQ was 197. I wanted to meet him
and see what he thought of TDVP. So I contacted him by email to let him know
when I would be in Australia and attached some information and links to books
and papers Dr. Neppe and I had published, related to our consciousness-based relativity/quantum
physics paradigm shift. I received a reply from him stating that he had
discovered much the same thing some years ago, but realized that general
knowledge of the discovery would mean the end of the world as we know it. He
also made it clear that he had retired to this remote tropical area in Eastern Australia
to avoid publicity, and did not want to be disturbed. He gave me no specifics
concerning exactly what he had discovered
that he believed would spell the end of the world, and no specifics concerning
his location, so I was unable to meet with him, and because he asked me not to
contact him further, I couldn’t learn anything more about his misgivings
concerning his, and presumably our, findings.

I have been reluctant to tell anyone about
this, and reluctant to pursue it further because of what appears to be a great danger
to humanity. This is the first time I have written about it. I think it may
have to do with the nature of multi-dimensional time and the collapse of the Schrӧdinger probabilistic wave function by
conscious observation. While contemplating the mathematics of three-dimensional
time a few years ago, I saw a way that time travel might actually be possible.
My experience in the Great Pyramid of Giza, which I wrote about briefly in the
last post, seemed to confirm this. But because time travel has the potential to
destroy the world as we know it, I promised my beautiful wife Jacqui that I
would not attempt to build a time machine.

WHAT HAPPENS IF ALL THE UNKNOWN BECOMES
KNOWN?

The
Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics was Bohr and Heisenberg’s answer
to the Einstein Podolsky Rosen (EPR) paradox. It said that physical systems do
not have finite objective properties like particles or waves prior to being
measured, and quantum mechanics can only predict a range of probabilities that
measurements will produce certain results. Furthermore, the act of measurement done
or arranged by conscious observers affects the system, causing the set of
probabilities to reduce to only one of the possible values with the
measurement. This was known as the wave-function collapse, where the wave function
was the Schrӧdinger wave equation, actually a probability distribution function
describing the possible quantum states before observation.

Because the
basic philosophical position of most physicists was, and is, materialistic,
many object to the Copenhagen Interpretation because it seems to require the
involvement of the consciousness of the observer. Even Erwin Schrӧdinger, one
of the architects of quantum mechanics objected to it. I think everyone has
heard of Schrӧdinger’s famous cat who was said to be in a superimposed state,
neither dead nor alive, in a box where a quantum process determined whether or
not a poison was released, because, according to the Copenhagen interpretation,
the quantum state of the mechanism that could release the poison was just a
range of probabilities until observed by the experimenter. [Incidentally, if
consciousness does actually cause the wave function to ‘collapse’ from a state
of multiple probabilities to a single objective state, there is a flaw the
famous Schrӧdinger’s cat scenario: the
consciousness of the cat was not considered. In fact, it is presumptuous to
think that the consciousness of a human observer is the only effective form of
consciousness at work.

Of course,
Schrӧdinger never believed that the cat could be in such a state. He posed the
situation as a thought experiment to underline the absurdity of the Copenhagen
interpretation. But to the surprise of virtually every physicist, Bell’s
inequality, sometimes called Bell’s theorem, and the Aspect experiment proved
that the Copenhagen interpretation was correct, at least in principle.

Physicists
who objected to the Copenhagen interpretation tried to think of alternatives that would avoid
the EPR paradox without the implication that consciousness is directly involved
in the shaping of reality. Alternatives include
themany-worlds interpretation, theDe Broglie-Bohm (pilot-wave) interpretation,
andquantum de-coherencetheories.
But they all involve consciousness and a redefinition of time. From the simple
double-slit experiment where we are able to see light as either particle or
wave by the way we choose to observe it, to Wheeler’s delayed-choice experiments
where the past can be determined by choices we make in the present, to
resolutions of the EPR paradox, the unescapable conclusion is that the nature
of reality is a product of the interaction of consciousness with a
probabilistic physical universe.

REALITY: THE
RESULT OF OBSERVATION

Quantum
physics tells us that reality exists in a state of multiple possibilities described
by the Schrӧdinger wave equation until an observation is made. At the small end
of the scale of the physical universe, we have a smallest possible distinction:
the TRUE unit quantum distinction multiples of which define distinct finite quanta
appearing out of the many possible states upon observation by a conscious
observer. With the discovery of the TRUE quantum unit, defined by the limits of
relativity, we have reached the bottom, so to speak, of reality. Reality at the
TRUE quantum unit level has been condensed out of a range of possible states
and stabilized as quarks, electrons, protons, neutrons, atoms, molecules,
organic and inorganic compounds, living organisms, planets, solar systems, and
galaxies, by the act of drawing finite distinctions, the act of observation. As
we extend observation to the edge of the universe, we bring more and more of
reality into finite non-probabilistic manifestation. Relativity and quantum
mechanics has revealed the lower limit of reality. Is there an upper limit?

LOOK-BACK TIME
AND THE BIG BANG

Hubble’s discovery of the red shift in light from distant
stars increasing with distance, suggested that the universe began with an explosion
from a beginning point in space and time. So we have a universe of many
possibilities expanding from an unobserved quantum past. As we expand our
observation farther and farther into the past by developing more and more
powerful means of observation, what happens when we observe the first moment in
space and time? Quantum physics tells us that the multiplicity of possibilities
will be reduced to one. The ever-expanding possibility of many worlds will be
reduced to one concrete finite reality. The end of knowledge and learning will
be in sight: we will have absolute knowledge of the nature of reality. But is
this a good thing? Or will we have destroyed the goose that laid the golden
eggs?

The universe of many possibilities is one we are very
familiar with. It could be argued that it is what makes life interesting, and
perhaps even what makes life worth living. A world of infinite possibilities is
an infinitely interesting place. The mental imagery of music and art suggest an
infinity of possible worlds. Could it be that without quantum indeterminacy,
the fountain of human thought, creativity, love and hate, and even self-awareness,
the basis of consciousness itself, would dry up and disappear? Is the end result of
science the end of the world?